About Maria
MARIA SILMON
‘Art of Nature'
Maria has been a clothes designer and artist for many years, and now works in the mediums of digital art, photography and video. Previous exhibitions include: the Chalice Well and Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, Sunrise Festival, and the British Society of Dowsers Conference. She has recently created video installations for the Ryedale Folk Museum and Coastival Festival, Scarborough. She regularly exhibits her work in North Yorkshire where she lives, and opens her studio to the public in the summer for ‘North Yorkshire Open Studios’.
Maria grew up listening to stories of her Great Grandfather, a spiritual healer and herbalist who had visitations from an American Indian guide, who he conversed with in fluent native tongue. These stories she believes, account for an awareness of her own spiritual development, and fascination with the natural world.
Her journey has taken her to foreign lands to visit the Mayan architecture of the pyramid temples in the Yucatan, where she joined the first ‘Solar Initiation Tour’ with Hunbatz Men, a Mayan priest; to the Native American Indian dwellings of Mesa Verde and to the Hopi settlements of Arizona, where she felt blessed to be invited to a weekend of Kachina Dances in a Hopi village. On her last travel, a 6-month journey through India, she was inspired by the temple art of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain faiths.
Maria is currently working on a project relating to the Solar Festivals as well as one regarding the extensive rock art on the North York Moors.
Her influences include Arthur Rackham, Richard Dadd , John Anster Fitzgerald & many other Victorian fairy painters. Andy Goldsworthy, Vik Muniz, Richard Long, Coco Chanel, and for Video – Bill Viola. For inspirational philosophy and spirituality - Yogananda, British Society of Dowsers, The Theosophical Society, Zoence, Gatekeeper Trust and Sir George Trevelyan, herald of the New Age!!
Work in Progress:
* Creating art inspired by the Rock Art of the North York Moors.
• Illustrating and writing a booklet about the solar festivals.
• Collaborative documentary video on the importance of
celebrating the solar festivals.
• Compiling divination pack of cards with illustrated guide book.
‘Art of Nature'
Maria has been a clothes designer and artist for many years, and now works in the mediums of digital art, photography and video. Previous exhibitions include: the Chalice Well and Goddess Conference in Glastonbury, Sunrise Festival, and the British Society of Dowsers Conference. She has recently created video installations for the Ryedale Folk Museum and Coastival Festival, Scarborough. She regularly exhibits her work in North Yorkshire where she lives, and opens her studio to the public in the summer for ‘North Yorkshire Open Studios’.
Maria grew up listening to stories of her Great Grandfather, a spiritual healer and herbalist who had visitations from an American Indian guide, who he conversed with in fluent native tongue. These stories she believes, account for an awareness of her own spiritual development, and fascination with the natural world.
Her journey has taken her to foreign lands to visit the Mayan architecture of the pyramid temples in the Yucatan, where she joined the first ‘Solar Initiation Tour’ with Hunbatz Men, a Mayan priest; to the Native American Indian dwellings of Mesa Verde and to the Hopi settlements of Arizona, where she felt blessed to be invited to a weekend of Kachina Dances in a Hopi village. On her last travel, a 6-month journey through India, she was inspired by the temple art of the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain faiths.
Maria is currently working on a project relating to the Solar Festivals as well as one regarding the extensive rock art on the North York Moors.
Her influences include Arthur Rackham, Richard Dadd , John Anster Fitzgerald & many other Victorian fairy painters. Andy Goldsworthy, Vik Muniz, Richard Long, Coco Chanel, and for Video – Bill Viola. For inspirational philosophy and spirituality - Yogananda, British Society of Dowsers, The Theosophical Society, Zoence, Gatekeeper Trust and Sir George Trevelyan, herald of the New Age!!
Work in Progress:
* Creating art inspired by the Rock Art of the North York Moors.
• Illustrating and writing a booklet about the solar festivals.
• Collaborative documentary video on the importance of
celebrating the solar festivals.
• Compiling divination pack of cards with illustrated guide book.